"This is an optimal position for eavesdropping, you know," we whispered sweetly at a recent show at the Armory Center for the Arts as we kissed bald men's heads, played with hair, hung upside down and tickled the nice people of Pasadena. So few in the crowd had any immediate awareness of us, just above their heads in hammocks, that we, clowns by nature, quickly fell into the role of Instigators of Absurdity, playing with people, making them jump and laugh, punking their perceptions of space, blurring the boundaries of performance and audience.

We truly enjoy this.

We love the ways in which a presto change-o aesthetic, the laws of physics, the permeability of the ordinary and a fine sense of humor have become our playthings.

And we are wildly excited to share the airborne art we make with you.

We are moved by the theatrical as well as the purely aesthetic, and so our performances feature strong character work and attention to narrative as well as original costuming and a highly developed visual palette. We work with DJs and bands, perform our own exquisite choreographies in the air, and also improvise masterfully with the music of the event. We generate our own content, or take the thematic content of any event and run with it like champions, creating a spectacle that is a seamless part of the whole, and takes the whole to an entirely new level of beauty and fun.

Founder Pamela Maravilla Samuelson is a multimedia performance artist who has performed for a wide, strange variety of audiences worldwide, in venues including Lightning In a Bottle, various sold-out Puerto Rican stadiums, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, The Kitchen NYC, St. Ann's Warehouse, Espace DbD, The Bootleg Theater, Bulgarian national television, all over the great city of Black Rock, and for clubs, theaters, corporate events, high school assemblies and street corners on 3 continents.

She is also currently the director of performance and primary aerialist for 7 Star Sun, a wizardly L.A.-based performance company marrying interactive mapping and projection art with live dance theater.

AEROS performs solos, duets, and larger ensemble pieces across a huge spectrum of settings, public and private, indoor and outdoor.

Is it possible to create a SECRET THEATRE in which both artist & audience have completely disappeared – only to re-appear on another plane, where life & art have become the same thing, the pure giving of gifts?

Hakim Bey, TAZ

It has come to our attention that we inhabit a vast and amazingly generous world, and that it is high time to reclaim the tremendous expanse of underused public space for the beautiful activity of the human beings to whom it belongs.

In this spirit, we come together to create Secret Theater.

We are a small, potent crew of performing aerialists seeking to affect the quality of the public gaze through shock-wonderment and gifts of visual poetry across a wide range of contexts. Our acts reflect our deep love for the surprise intrusion of the marvelous into the everyday, the blurry line between performer and audience, the superheroism of the circus arts, & our sense of civic duty to reclaim our shared public space from those institutions that would purchase and squander our attention, and return to it the variety, curiosity and wildness that arises in proximity and connection between individuals.

We offer our work and play as a radically gentle intervention, an open love letter to our City of Angels and all of our fellow citizens - all of our friends, and all the friends we have not yet met.

VDay Aerial Flash Mob: a lovebomb dropped on Los Angeles by the dawn's early light. Photos by Dustin Engelskind.